We learn, share, and make things.
We learn, share, and make things.
Zombie Pumpkin has just hacked this post to remind you that Resistor’s Halloween Gigante Party Super-Especial is Friday October 31st, from 9 p.m. onwards. Come in costume, or one will be assigned to you. Possibly me. $10 cover includes lots…
When we got the Lazor at NYCR, Adam discovered that Moleskin’s have PVC (not good) in the leather and lazering such a thing could be harmful to your health and might even harm small puppies! (Gasp!) I wanted to Lazer…
Meet News Knitter. It’s described as: “… a data visualization project which focuses on knitted garments as an alternative medium to visualize large scale data.” The sweaters are all designed pulling in feeds from Google News and a few other…
Sparkfun just launched the Arduino Pro Mini for $19… it’s tiny, and cheap, and been in the works for a long time. Here’s their description: It’s blue! It’s thin (0.8mm)! It’s the Arduino Pro Mini! SparkFun’s minimal design approach to…
Allen Salkin of The New York Times wrote a great piece about the new Nerd Culture in this weeks Sunday paper. Great read and an audio slide show to go with it, narrated by our very own Nick Bilton (that’s…
We came, we saw, we definitely didn’t conquer. The picture above shows Tom Igoe (who won 3rd place! congrats!) triumphantly turning off the tellyvision with his finished device. I have to say, an award should have gone to Matt Joyce…
Ok, well, erm, sorry for all the Fail Whale’s yesterday… We had a little too much fun at NYCR last night. Moving back to the world of blinking LED’s and robots… isn’t this little guy, cute? He, I mean, it,…
Floating Fail Whale by Nick Bilton
Trossen Robotics has just announced that they are shipping RoboBuilder kits. They are the pieces and parts that make ‘Humanoid Robots’. Price ranges are dramatically different, but it looks like a fun intro for people that are just getting farmiliar…